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The highest poverty :

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The highest poverty :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

monastic rules and form-of-life /

First Statement of Responsibility

Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 157 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Series Title

Meridian, Crossing Aesthetics

Text of Note

"Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita."

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy. But Agamben's thesis is that the true novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion between life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension, in which "life" as such, perhaps for the first time, is affirmed in its autonomy, and in which the claim of the "highest poverty" and "use" challenges the law in ways that we must still grapple with today

General Material Designation

Altissima povertà.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Monastic and religious life-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500

Monasticism and religious orders, Rules

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Book number

Agamben, Giorgio,1942-

Kotsko, Adam

Date of Transaction

20140405113442.0

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[Book]

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